of hearings, there is a wider set of concerns driving this. announcer: watch the communicators on c-span2. >> behind me is richard franklin pettigrew. he came to view territory in -- he first came to the dakota territory in 1869 as a surveyor. come with us to his home to learn more about his contribution to the city of sioux falls. >> we are in the pettigrew home and museum, the home of u.s. senator richard franklin pettigrew who served in the u.s. senate from 1889 until 1901. he lived in the home from 1911 until his death in 1926. in 1889, this is one of the most modern homes you would have

found. it had radiators, indoor plumbing, gas and electric lights, even telephones, which is really interesting because just a few miles away from here, out on the farm in the county, people were living without windows and doors. so, this home was top-notch for sioux falls and the dakota territory at the time. richard pettigrew was born in ludlow, vermont in 1848. his parents moved to south wisconsin in 1852. he eventually attends lloyd college and reed's law at the university of wisconsin and at a law firm in madison. law at theds university of wisconsin.

in 1869, he finds himself looking for a summer job and he comes west as part of a government surveying party. when he passes through the city in may 1869, it is actually an army called for dakota and it was garrisoned by a single company of the 22nd u.s. infantry. he spent the summer working as a surveyor, learning the surveyor business, and in september they passed back through what would be sioux falls on their way to wisconsin. and the dakotas had been abandoned by the army and mr. dakota discover that or akota had been abandoned by the army. mr. pettigrew takes the opportunity to claim a section of land in the preemption act and stands in the middle of it. pettigrew is elected to the territory legislature in 1873

just before his 24th birthday. he claims that the reason he got elected was he knew all of the farmers. they saw his name on the ballot. they knew him. so, he goes to the territorial legislature. he has some very colorful stories about that. one member shot another member in the middle of session. pettigrew was in a fist fight on the floor of the legislature. not really the way we think about the legislative process today. in 1879 he went to the new city in the black hills. he attributes that to getting the black hills vote and in 1880, he became the territory's representative to congress.

and the territorial representative did not get to vote. he spent two years as a territorial representative, returned to the dakota and was returned to the territorial legislature for another term. when south dakota became a's state, became a pettigrew was one of two men and elected in 1889. and to determine who got a two-year term and who got a six-year term, they drew straws. pettigrew drew the six-year term. pettigrew seems like a real packrat. we do have a number of artifacts.

he has a large vase. there are also things that he picked up that probably have more personal meeting. mostly it is just travel souvenirs. part of the problem with that is they came and it was presented to him by the last ruler, ruler and she presented it to him and ruler of theian hawaiian islands, and she presented it to him and recognition of the work he had done in the senate on her behalf. pettigrew was described as an anti-materialist, having an

t when majorrialis powers were having a particularly imperialistic interests. in japan, china, but also hawaii. pettigrew is just one of those people that, i think, wanted everybody to be treated fairly. and the way that the u.s. took over the hawaiian islands may not have exactly been ideal. if pettigrew really took the case and actually opposed the treaty of acquisition, the treaty for the u.s. annexing in 1897 -- this was something that did not endear him to members of his party at the time. when he begins his career in the

territorial legislature, he is a strong republican and he remains with the republic and party through the economic crash of 1893. at that time, he moves along with a lot of people from the midwest into the populist camp, and the nationalist party, the populist party, if it survives in some form today, but in this part of the world -- he became a populist. and he supported william jennings bryan's run for the presidency. he was defeated. in 1900, pettigrew was involved in a bid for another term. he was defeated. in his years after the senate, he became a democrat. so, he really moved through the

political spectrum over a period of about 30 years, 30 five years. >> we hope when visitors come to visit, they get a little taste of what life was like, and the tremendous changes that pettigrew went through in his lifetime. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to sioux falls, south dakota to learn more about its history. learn more about sioux falls and other stops on our tour on other stops on the c-span cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. announcer: you stand, where history -- cspan, where history

unfolds daily. created asspan was television companies. >> next, lori lyn price of tufts school of medicine talks about the homemade remedies graded and used by 17th-century new england house was. the partnership of his stored austin into the old new england church cohosted. -- historic boston and the old new england church cohosted. this is an hour and 15. >> i am delighted to introduce the immediate and by immediate i think a week, past president of the boston society who is an old friend who will be introducing our speaker for tonight. [applause]